I draw your attention to this piece by Sam Rocha at Patheos (a site bringing together all sorts of different religious views and insights). It looks at the Zimmerman trial with a keen eye, and draws some wide conclusions based on reading many of the key court documents/statements (NB fascinating […]
Good grief. Nice writing on race and related issues by ‘mixed race’ writer Shelby Steele who knows a few things about the history of race relations in the USA and has written a book on the subject, White Guilt. Thus: Today’s black leadership pretty much lives off the fumes of […]
My piece below on Cricket and Morality mentioned the problem of rulews crowding out principles and therefore judgement. Patrick Young of YoungMarkets replies: The deepest irony – and one of the many untruths spiralling around in the battle against finance is the myth of deregulation and principles-based regulation. 1) principles-based […]
I have been away at Crawf Major’s University graduation ceremony and generally wilting in the heat of the sun and the England cricket attack. Some space for some writing now reappears, including a nice opportunity to write something for Scotland’s Sunday Post about Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream […]
Here is my flashing cover drive straight to the Commentator on the ever-intriguing and timely subject of cricket and morality: In earlier years it was part of the moral code of cricket that a batsman ‘walked’ (ie left the field without waiting for any formal umpire decision) when he knew […]
The speech at the UN by young Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan is deservedly winning worldwide attention. Full text here. Malala of course would have been dead if Taliban lunatics had had their way: for them she is a “living symbol of the infidels and obscenity”. As it is she was […]
Now and then an article comes along that has an energetic ranting amusement factor but combines that with searching wisdom, thereby achieving certain immortality (at least for a few minutes). Here is one such piece by Toby Young at the Telegraph, letting fly at this piece in the Guardian by […]
As you will know, latterly on my lonely dawg walks I have taken to listening to the libertarian feminist pacifist humanist teetotal podcast Double Feature and its swearwordy young American co-hosts opining on movies from whatever point of view they like, especially when they don’t know what the hell they […]
The surging movement championed by President Obama towards gun control in the USA turns out to be a steady movement towards fewer controls. See this interesting map: Illinois has just become a shall-issue state, which means that pretty much any law-abiding adult age 21 and above can get a license […]
Round at the FCO yesterday I had a chat with some people who know what they are talking about on the increasingly strange case of Julian Assange and the Ecuador Embassy. It turns out that the costs of keeping a close eye on him continue to rise, although of course […]
